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Reviews, News & Commentaries

A new window into the genetics of complex diseases
Linda Koch Nature Reviews Genetics, August 20, 2014

A review of the role of electronic health record in genomic research 
Krishnamoorthy P, et al. J Cardiovasc Transl Res 2014 Aug

Genotype–phenotype correlation — Promiscuity in the era of next-generation sequencing
James T. Lu, et al.  N Engl J Med 2014; 371:593-596August 14, 2014

Genotype/phenotype correlation, disease discoveries shaken up by next generation sequencing, Medical News Today, Aug 15

Massive schizophrenia genomics study offers new drug directions
Elie Dolgin Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. August 18, 2014

You are what you eat, but what about your DNA? 
Martha Susiarjo, et al.  Science 15 August 2014:  Vol. 345 no. 6198 pp. 733-734.

10 reasons why genetic testing is important, I have Lynch Syndrome Blog Post, Aug 20

Medi-Cal denies patients access to now-basic genetic tests, Jessica Carew Kraft, SF Gate, Aug 20

New horizons and future directions for epigenetics, by Susannah Locke, Genetic Literacy Project, Aug 20

Genes to pathways to drug targets, by Robert Plenge, Plenge Lab, Aug 20

Blood test that allegedly predicts suicide risk only looks promising in the media, not in science, by Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post, Aug 19

Cool videos: Myotonic dystrophy, by Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director, NIH, Aug 19 

How one woman deciphered her own genetic mutation, Ed Yong, the Atlantic, Aug 19

Next-gen sequencing is a numbers game as technical and cost barriers fall, instrument firms move their systems into research and clinical markets, by Ann M. Thayer, CE &N, Aug 18

NIH announces the launch of 3 integrated precision medicine trials; ALCHEMIST is for patients with certain types of early-stage lung cancer, Aug 18

NIH Research Matters: Over 100 genetic sites tied to schizophrenia, Aug 18

NIH Research Matters: Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, Aug 18

NIH Research Matters: Detecting human prion disease, Aug 18

How Ebola patients survived – Experts, Vanguard Report, Aug 18

A revolution in classifying cancer? Andre Goy, Onclive, Aug 18

Do gut bacteria rule our minds?  In an ecosystem within us, microbes evolved to sway food choices, by Jeffrey Norris, UCSF Aug 15

Our beautiful sons could die before us, Nick Taussig, The Guardian, Aug 15 

Taking the yuck out of microbiome medicine, by Carl Zimmer, National Geographic, Aug 15

Epigenetics by any other name? What epigenetics should and should not be, Epigenetics Guy blog post, Aug 13

Next generation sequencing shakes up genotype/phenotype correlation, disease discoveries, Medical Xpress, Aug 13

Gene sequence but not structure? The costs of excluding epigenetics from genomics, Nexus of Epigenetics blog, Aug 1